Page 80 of Finding Us

“I keep learning new things about you. What other little secrets do you have?”

He smiles. “You’ve got a whole lifetime to find out.”

Just the thought of that makes me smile so wide my cheeks hurt. “I get a whole lifetime with you.”

“Yeah.” He laughs a little. “Did that just occur to you? Because if it did, it’s too late to change your mind. You are now officially stuck with me. And the Kensington men tend to live a long time so you could be stuck with me for the next 80 years.”

”I’ll take it. I’ll take as many years as I can have with you.”

He gazes at me with those bright blue eyes, the ones I couldn’t stop staring at when I first met him. “I love you, Jade. I haven’t said that enough to you today so get ready to hear it some more.”

“I love you, too.”

He leans down and gives me a kiss. “Should we go join the party now?”

“Yes. And you have to dance with me.”

“Of course I’ll dance with you.” He takes my hand and we head toward the reception area. “Why wouldn’t I?”

“I’ve never seen you dance before.”

“I danced with you at my house at the fundraiser.”

“That wasn’t really dancing. That was more like a hug with a little swaying.”

He stops walking. “What are you trying to say? I can’t dance?”

“I don’t know. Can you?”

“Yeah, and I’m good at it, too. Slow dance. Fast dance. Ballroom dance. I can do all of it.”

“Are you serious?”

“You don’t believe me?”

I laugh. “No. I don’t. So if you can dance, then there’s another thing I didn’t know about you.”

He bends his arm at the elbow and offers it to me, like he’s escorting me down the aisle. “Come with me, Mrs. Kensington. First we’ll have dinner and then get ready to be amazed.”

“Okay, but I still don’t believe you.”

When we get to the reception area, everyone stops talking and starts clapping. The DJ announces us and Harper takes us over to one of the tables to sit down. The tables are covered with white tablecloths topped with gray runners and vases full of light pink roses. White sparkling lights hang from the ceiling and around the small potted trees that line the dance floor. I insisted on the white lights given my newfound love of Christmas lights.

After dinner, the dancing begins. Garret and I decided not to do the first dance by ourselves because I didn’t want everyone staring at us while we danced. So instead we did the opposite and made a rule that everyone has to do the first dance. The couples paired up and those who were single had to find a partner. Frank dances with Grace, Pearce dances with Lilly, and Ryan dances with one of the girls from catering who Sean works with at the restaurant.

For the next song, Garret doesn’t stick to just swaying side to side. He starts moving his feet and taking me with him.

“Wait. I don’t know what I’m doing,” I tell him.

“You just have to follow my lead. The guy leads, the girl follows.”

“I never follow. I always lead.”

“Not on the dance floor.” He has a firm grip on my waist and leads me, just like he said, and eventually I get the whole following thing and somehow we’re dancing.

Then a fast song comes on, one that’s always on the radio.

He smiles. “You sure you want to see this?”

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